| Re: Chad
If I tell you how, you have to share those GIFs ;-)
First of all, you need a DECwindows display (workstation or DECwindows
terminal) and a GIF viewer. XV is the viewer of choice for
VMS/DECwindows environments. You can copy the viewer to your account
with the following command:
$ SPOOL COPY GUESS::SYS$PUBLIC:XV.EXE SYS$LOGIN:*.*
To use XV, you need to define them as a foreign symbol. If you
don't know how to do that, put these in your LOGIN.COM
$ XV :== $SYS$LOGIN:XV.EXE
Then do this:
$ @SYS$LOGIN:LOGIN
Then to display your GIFs:
$ XV *.GIF
When the first image is displayed, move the cursor into the image and
press MB3 (mouse button 3 - far right button). A control box will
appear and allow you to scroll thru your images.
Other nifty things XV does:
$ XV -root -maxpect -quit filename.GIF
this command puts your GIF in your root window (monitor background).
If you omit the -maxpect it puts multiple copies of the GIF until the
display is full (collage or tile effect).
$ xv -pause -maxpect -quit filename.GIF
this command will put the image in your pause window.
$ spawn/nowait/notify xv -root -maxpect -wait 30 -wloop *.gif
this command will create a slide show in your root window.
I have also setup my workstation to display a neat DEC logo in the
login screen. It's a little more involved though. Send mail if you're
curious enough.
XV will also view JPEG files. It will also convert GIFs, JPEGs, and XBMs
to a number of different formats including PostScript.
hope this helps,
Mike
|
| The gateway has a FTPMAIL program for us poor VMS wienees. All you
have to do is mail a script to DECWRL::FTPMAIL. For example,
connect cs.uwp.edu
binary
uuencode
chdir /pub/music/gifs/kingsx
get kingsx.6391.gif
get kingsx.fhl.gif
get kingsx.woods.gif
quit
If you send a message to DECWRL::FTPMAIL with "help" as the only word
in the message body, you'll receive these instructions:
From: DECPA::NOBODY "ftpmail daemon on mts-gw.pa.dec.com"
To: fretz::heiser
CC:
Subj: your ftpmail request has been received
>>> this help file was last edited on 08-August-1991
>>>
>>> commands are:
reply <MAILADDR> set reply addr, since headers are usually wrong
connect [HOST [USER [PASS]]] defaults to gatekeeper.dec.com, anonymous
ascii files grabbed are printable ascii
binary files grabbed are compressed or tar or both
chdir PLACE "get" and "ls" commands are relative to PLACE
(only one CHDIR per ftpmail session)
compress compress binaries using Lempel-Ziv encoding
compact compress binaries using Huffman encoding
uuencode binary files will be mailed in uuencode format
btoa binary files will be mailed in btoa format
ls (or dir) PLACE short (long) directory listing
get FILE get a file and have it mailed to you
quit terminate script, ignore rest of mail message
(use if you have a .signature or
are a VMSMAIL user)
>>> notes:
-> you must give a "connect" command, default host is
gatekeeper.dec.com, default user is anonymous, default
password is your mail address.
-> binary files will not be compressed unless 'compress' or 'compact'
command is given; use this if at all possible, it helps a lot.
-> binary files will always be formatted into printable ASCII
with "btoa" or "uuencode" (default is "btoa").
-> all retrieved files will be split into 60KB chunks and mailed.
-> VMS/DOS/Mac versions of uudecode, atob, compress and compact
are available, ask your LOCAL wizard about them if you can't
locate them (but try gatekeeper.dec.com in /archive/pub/VMS
if you're still trapped on a VMS system.)
-> several mail unsplitters are hiding on gatekeeper.dec.com in
/pub/mail/ua/misc/unsplit. includes one in c, one in perl,
and one in VMS DCL.
>>> examples:
-> connect to gatekeeper.dec.com and get a root directory listing:
connect
ls
quit
-> connect to gatekeeper.dec.com and get the README.ftp file:
connect
get README.ftp
quit
-> connect to gatekeeper.dec.com and get the gnuemacs sources:
connect
binary
chdir /pub/GNU
get emacs-18.57.tar.Z
quit
-> connect to uunet.uu.net as anonymous and get a root directory list:
connect uunet.uu.net
dir
quit
-- Ftpmail Submission Transcript --
<<< help
>>> Help is on the way.
-- End Of Ftpmail Transcript --
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| I now know how to pull the tabs and chords off that nevada site that is
listed here using ftpmail, (thanks for the coaching) but I have
noticed that when you look at the listing it states that there are 34
songs and seven are listed, or there are 125 songs and 70 show up in
the listing. Is there any way to get a complete directory or LS I guess
it would be of pub/guitar/ALLTHEARTISTS?
UNIX Iliterate BUT trying,
Pat
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